Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1887-08-16
McceoK COUNTY.
A Scribe Among the People of that

Yankton, Aug, l6-To the Press and
Dakotaian: at Centreville q large mum
Der OF ladies boarded the train going
north, q portion of the number leaving
at Hurley and the remaining portion
stopping off at Parker. Some gathering
in behalf of temperance at CentreviIle
had called the company together, SO we
were informed.
DIR. Ward also left us at Parker, to go
to Alexandria. On the train we formed
the acquaintance of Rev. r, E. Garter,
OF the NJ. =. church, late from Kangoon,
Burmah. MIR. Garter has been doing
mission work in India for the last eight
years. II comes to Dakota to seek a
location for a home.
At Canova, a SIN all village on the
Northwestern of perhaps $50 inhabitants,
We left the cars for q private conveyance
to Dover, about seven miles to the west.
Our road for the first half OF the way lay
through a level prairie, which has not
been blessed this year with more than
bali q crop, on account OF the long, dry
weather. The last half of our way was
more undertaking and had a far better
show of grass and grain.
Dover is a name without the village.
The postofice is named Dover in honor
of Dover, Maine, where the Rev. I. a.
Quincy the Congregational minister of
the community, claims his birth place
and some other families came also from
the same place. The postofice is kept
in tie minister's private house, mail
privileges three times a week. Mr..
Quincy and his boys have taken up
thirteen quarter sections of Uncle Sans
domain. For two or three miles we
travelled by the side OF the Quincy farm.
This large tract of free soil is
titled by modern means of cultivation.
Two gang plows pulled by three horses
each were turning over the soil. Two
hundred of the lowing herds were graz
ing in the pastures, with much blooded
stock in the herd. We noticed fine
looking COWS of the Holstein breed in
the drove, In the spacious barn of three
stories We saw the stalls filed with fine
looking horses, three Norman sires with
Arabian blood, weighing each from
800 to I.S00 pounds. 1t was our good
fortune to ride In a sulky driven by two
of these splendid specimens of horse
flesh. Each of the two in the trial trip
fully satisfied us as to power and speed.
We have not often been privileged in be-.
holding 30 many big things in any one
place on earth as here. Tall men and
women live in the large house, big
horses IN the barn, q lofty wind mill
grinds the feed for stock, large swine
roam at large in the ample pasture
large COWS swell the herd, q large pine
cone from the pineries of California
hangs IN the receiving room as an n
ment, which by actual measurement we
found to be lS1@ inches long by a CIR.
cumference OF II inches. The cone
from the ordinary pine of the setting
sun state. ALI these great things added
to the great farm 10 q type Of the way
things are done in Dakota. / saw only
one small specimen on this farm and
that was an artesian we'll, which l war
invited to test its pleasant and coo.
Qualities by means of three wheat strawt
as in old cider making times. I lowered
the water in the pipe 6 inches with my
trial straw and did not drink much
either. The flow is not quite equal to the
we'll at the brick yard in Jul city.
[ found on old paper at the Gcrney
home from which I transcribe two Items
Each will explain it's own history, telling
how they did things a century ago:
NO 1884,
This TICKET admits the Bearer to the
4 Festivity of the Sons of Liberty, to be
!: celebrated on Roxbury Common en- Satur-
!: day, the Fourteen Instant.
IT.; N. B. Dinner precisely ten minutes before
one; and the company to break up exactly
: at five o'clock.
August 10, 1773. (6s)
J, Another scrap of history is record
of 1880. dated at Boston town:
sat the court OF the assistants il Wei
ordered that Mr.. Patrick and MIR. Under
hill shall have allowed them for q hal
years provisions 2 hogshesds OF meal
4 bushels of malt, 10 pounds OF powder
and lead to make shot; also house roon
provided for them and el5 IL, in money
to make other provisions. All this to be
. done at the public charge, their year tc
begin from the time they begin to keep
, house."
at is ordered that Tri. Maintain shal
. be called Boston Mattapan.D oroheste
and the town upon Charles river Water
town."
At Oanova we called upon the edlto
of the Miner county Leader which give
its constituency weekly q spirited ooun
ty paper.
At the depot in Oanova we f%ortunatel.
i met with the editor OF the Howard Ad
vance, with whom we had q pleasan
lchat. Upon our arrival home in Yanh
, ton We found a letter from a missioner
in Asia Miner informing us that th
work was begun collecting for th
1 cabinet and museum of Yankton, col
: lege from that historical locality owe
, which Paul, the apostle, Travelled Ion
years ago. d. b. N.
Fresh Oysters at the EurOpea
Restaurant.